We're heading to #APA2026 in Washington, D.C., Aug 6-8. 📍 Catch Andrew Gordon's talk "Not All Samples Are Created Equal," comparing data quality across 12 major online sample providers (N = 4,800). Thursday, Aug 6 @ 10-11 AM, Room 147B. Find us at Booth #461 all week. #AcademicSky

Amazon MTurk just closed to new customers as of July 30, 2026. It solved a genuine problem for researchers in its early days, but its drop in data quality became hard to ignore. @andrewgordon.bsky.social explains that the bar for quality has moved on. #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity

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MTurk closing to new customers is a symptom of a bigger data integrity problem in online research. Here's what panels need to do to avoid the same fate.

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Today at Quirk's, @andrewgordon.bsky.social and Asana's Lizzy Munro wrapped up their session on what really determines quality. Backed by a head-to-head comparison study, they shared that participant panel choice remains key, along with tips to maintain research quality. #ResearchIntegrity

AI agent activity in online surveys is far less common than assumed. Across 10 sample providers, agents showed up almost only on MTurk (11-16%), elsewhere at or below 1%. @andrewgordon.bsky.social presents findings today at Quirk's, NYC. Connect if you're there 📄 #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity

👋🗽 If you're at Quirk's in NYC today and tomorrow, come find us at Stand Mini A to talk about data quality in online research. #QuirksEvent #AcademicSky

Recent findings show AI agent contamination in online research is far less prevalent than widely assumed. @andrewgordon.bsky.social presents the data this week at Quirk's, with Lizzy Munro (Asana) on what data integrity looks like in practice. 11:15 AM - July 30, Room 1. #AcademicSky #QuirksEvent

Over the past few weeks, we've had the pleasure of awarding over £1000 in Prolific credit to researchers shaping the future of their fields. A look back at BEE UK, EASP, and King's Open Research Summer School 🧵 #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Research

When we started @joinprolific.bsky.social, we were motivated by the question "what if MTurk was actually good"? It's sad to see Mturk closing it's doors, but it's not a surprise. It’s the result of years of degrading data quality and an unhealthy marketplace.

If you're evaluating research platforms right now, here’s what it looks like when you set up on Prolific. Create an account, connect your preferred tool via link or API, access 300K+ verified participants and 300+ screeners, set your pay, and publish. #AcademicSky #Research

New from the Oxford Internet Institute: a nationally representative survey of 2,002 UK adults on trust and use of large language models, led by Dr Florence Enock and Prof. Helen Margetts. Participants sourced via Prolific. You can access the report below 📄

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New research from the Oxford Internet Institute! UK adults are increasingly turning to AI not just for practical help, but for emotional support, relationship advice, + companionship. A new report led by Dr Florence Enock surveyed 2,000 UK adults on their LLM use. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/uk-adults-in...

MTurk closes to new customers on July 30. We want to make moving your research over to Prolific as easy as possible, starting with $50/£50 toward your first study. Here's how to get started on Prolific in 15 minutes ⬇️ #AcademicSky #MTurk

Big day for our AI research team at #ICML2026 in Seoul 🧪 Prolific's Nora Petrova and John Burden presented "Pressure Reveals Character" - a benchmark of 904 alignment scenarios testing how 24 frontier models behave under realistic pressure. 📎 arxiv.org/abs/2602.20813 | @icmlconf.bsky.social #MLSky

📊 Conjointly's 2026 panel experience survey ranked Prolific #1 across participant satisfaction, earnings, and monthly survey completions out of 11 panels. 98% rated our platform easy to use. 96% would recommend us! #MarketResearch #Research #AcademicSky

We're thrilled to share that Prolific is joining as an industry research partner on a new AI4CI Hub grant project 🎉 "Learning Together: Designing Inclusive Human-AI Teams for Collective Decision-Making", led by Dr. Zheng Yuan at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. More details below ↓ #AcademicSky #MLSky

Thanks to @joinprolific.bsky.social for having us on their Frontier Series podcast! Come for the discussion on LLM evaluation (if a model says something, do we know it's using that information internally?), stay for the detailed instructions on cooking an omelette 🍳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2qL...

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This one's been a long time coming! Longitudinal projects are live now on @joinprolific.bsky.social, a dedicated way to run multi-wave research from start to finish.

Congratulations to our AI researchers Nora Petrova and John Burden whose paper has been accepted as a spotlight paper at ICML 2026 🧪🎉 "Pressure Reveals Character" tests how frontier models behave under realistic pressure, not just what they say they'd do. @icmlconf.bsky.social #MLSky #Research

Longitudinal studies have always been a pain to run online. Every wave a separate study, allowlists by hand, attrition tracked in spreadsheets. You can now do it all in one organized flow on Prolific. #AcademicSky #BehavioralScience #Research

If you're at the @psychscience.bsky.social (APS) Annual Convention and haven't stopped by the Prolific booth yet, we'd love to hear from you. Head over to booth #5 in the exhibit hall to find out how we can support your behavioral research. #APS26BCN #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Research

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Dr @andrewgordon.bsky.social presented "Not All Samples Are Created Equal" at #APS26BCN this week - the most comprehensive comparison of data quality across online sample providers to date. Critical work for researchers making platform decisions. @psychscience.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Research

Fraud in online samples is at an all-time high, and platform choice matters. This afternoon at AAPOR, @andrewgordon.bsky.social presents "Not All Samples Are Created Equal," the largest benchmarking study of data quality across sample providers. 🕓 4:00 PM 📍 Beaudry B, Lobby Floor #AAPOR #Research

Be sure to say hello to the Prolific team at booth #105 if you're at AAPOR this week! We're available throughout the conference to show you how we uphold online data quality, support longitudinal research, and tackle the growing challenge of survey fraud. @aapor.bsky.social #ResearchIntegrity

Can AI replace human respondents? At AAPOR, @andrewgordon.bsky.social presented a benchmark of synthetic survey data against real human polling across multiple question domains, subgroups, and levels of specification. More from Andrew this Friday. @aapor.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Research

Prolific is coming to the AAPOR Conference in LA with a packed schedule. Staff Researcher @andrewgordon.bsky.social will be presenting a workshop and three key projects on the central themes of research trust and data quality 🧵 #AAPOR #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity

When tested against seven key AI agent detection methods, Prolific's bot authenticity checks were the only method to achieve 100% accuracy with zero false positives. Read the full methodology from @andrewgordon.bsky.social: www.prolific.com/resources/au... | #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity

Authenticity checks detect AI agents best | Prolific

How we tested the most accurate method for identifying agentic AI

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AI chatbots aren’t yet completing online research surveys widely, according to a new study. My latest for @retractionwatch.com: retractionwatch.com/2026/04/30/a... @joinprolific.bsky.social, @davmicrot.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, @seanjwestwood.bsky.social

Are AI chatbots infiltrating online survey data? Not yet, says new study

Mohamed Nohassi/Unsplash Despite concerns some have raised about potentially compromised data, AI chatbots aren’t yet completing online research surveys widely, according to a new preprint.  T…

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Five days in Rio saw a lot of great research, scientific conversations, and connections at ICLR 🧪 Here's an #ICLR2026 highlights thread. @iclr-conf.bsky.social | #MLSky #AcademicSky #ArtificialIntelligence #Research

Tomorrow our sciences team are presenting "The Missing Red Line" at the #ICLR2026 ICBINB workshop which focuses on where LLMs need to improve and what rigorous failure audits reveal. Our researchers tested 8 frontier models in scenarios where commercial objectives conflict with user safety. 1/4 🧪

On our way to Sugarloaf Mountain for dinner with the AI research community ⛰️ #ICLR2026